yurayurateikokuさんの おぼえた日記 - 2022年10月23日(日)

Peter Barakan

Peter Barakan, welcome to “Business English for Global Competence.” It’s a great pleasure to have you with us here today.

Well, thank you for having me.

First of all, could you tell us how your career in Japan developed over the years?

Well, I started out when I…when I first came to Japan in 1974, I was working for a music publishing company with…the work was basically related to musical copyright. After that, I was luck enough to get my own radio program. Actually, it wasn’t even my own program the first time around. I was an assistant on someone else’s program for a little while. But I’d wanted to be on the radio probably ever since I decided that I wasn’t going to be a competent musician. (Competent musician.) I think for most people who love music as much as I do, at one point in their life, they probably want to be a musician, or toy with the idea at the very least.
I decided very quickly that I didn’t have the ability to be a really good musician, and I didn’t want to be a second-rate or third-rate one. So I discarded that possibility and decided to do something else. And I had this idea in the back of my mind that it would be really great if I had a radio program and was able to play the music that really inspired me to an audience of other people that maybe didn’t know about it. Having said that, I’d never really thought that, in reality, something like that would happen. So I went to university; I learned Japanese; I came to Japan.